shortrounddev

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by shortrounddev 3y ago
The goal of FSF is not one which people inherently identify with. You can either die on that hill (and you surely will die), or you can go out of your way to try to be diplomatic and convince people of your mission. If living the FSF moral
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> I am not calling for non-proportional representation, or for forcing proportional representation either. Then what, precisely, are you calling for when you call for more surface-level diversity in the leadership? How do you achieve pro
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No idea how they did it; nobody ever sued us over it. We did continue to distribute some source to our clients, but not GPL. It may have been a kind of LGPL or something, and then V3 and V4 of the product simply imported the V2 as a library
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> if you don't state it as a goal from the beginning then it won't even be considered I don't think it should be a goal. I think it should be a societal goal to provide equal opportunities to everyone, and we can probably
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> We need more leaders of color, women, LGBTQ representation, and others besides. The present leadership, particularly from RMS, creates an exclusionary environment in a place where inclusion and representation are important for the succ
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> get together with friends and family on a community-owned instance Do you think if I had friends that I would be on social media?
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I believe there is no counter culture in the west anymore. It is mainstream to be subversive, and so there is little to no subversiveness left
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For me the issue wasn't learning to solder, it was learning about electricity and the kinds of things I wanted to solder in an intuitive way
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> If you want your donation to help, at least check sites like Charity Navigator and Give Well and make a smart donation instead of blindly venmoing the Red Cross to help them fight the war against "administrative fees." Then t
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Really? 5 years? That seems really harsh. Is it all business failures or does it have to be due to mismanagement? I've heard the climate is very hostile to businesses in Germany; my sister in law was trying to sell art on etsy and appa
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`npm install -g serve` `serve ./` turns any directory into a localhost webserver
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Reminds me of this article from 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20200108002331/https://www.nytim... > In 2010 I published a novel, “The Serialist.” It did fine for a debut, which is to say well enoug
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There comes an inflection point in a startup when you have to move from MVP to scale, and there are two different kinds of tech and two kinds of people for each stage
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I've seen quite a few backend frameworks, but they're usually all based on express
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MSDN is like the Wikipedia of coding problems. You documentation for things that have nothing to do with MS there
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Don't remember where, but I saw an economic paper that said that, while Giuliani's theory of brutalizing vandals to prevent murders didnt have any evidence to support it, New York saw a reduction in murders when the cops started r
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"Years ago" means 3 years ago
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No, I developed an e-commerce site for blood diamond traffickers
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Years ago I worked for a company that made a propaganda site for J&J about their Talc lawsuits https://www.factsabouttalc.com/ The company liked to do a lot of performative charity events to convince ourselves that we w
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There's a steam CLI you can use to download the games without an interface
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I feel like the author and everyone else in this thread probably uses computers differently
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> It is purely irrational My assumption is they like the UX of Windows XP better than later versions of Windows. I sympathize, because I think that flat software UI design has made computers less fun to use, but I just use theming softwa
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The guy who developed stb_image writes all his software on Visual C++ 6 from 1998 https://github.com/nothings/stb > Why not C99? stdint.h, declare-anywhere, etc. > I still use MSVC 6 (1998) as my IDE because it h
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by shortrounddev 3y ago
I agree and that's why I'm working on an SDL tutorial with modern SDL features centered around how a game might actually be structured. Unfortunately, though, the only real way to learn to write a game properly is to write a dozen
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If I was faced with the prospect of losing my job as a software engineer and instead becoming a prompt "engineer", I would simply opt to drop out of the labor market entirely, or at least out of tech. At that point, there are no m
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interesting to see a company go from a reputation as a young, fast, forward thinking millennial company to one with archaic HR practices reviled by the world
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Day trading is not investing, it is gambling
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Not working on firefox for Windows 10. Javascript error when I click "start conversation": > Uncaught ReferenceError: can't access lexical declaration 'introAudioPlayed' before initialization buttonClickHan
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Is it absolutely necessary that they use an apple laptop? Maybe it'd be easier to just send them a PC. If Apple doesn't serve their region, then what's the plan in the inevitable case that the laptop breaks? Ship it to an app
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